Guides

A number of standard Guides can be displayed in the views. The four guides are Monitor Safety, Safe Title, Center and Film.

Enabling And Disabling The Guides

Context Menu

Select Guides>Show Guides from the display view's context menu.

Keyboard

Use Ctrl-G to enable or disable the display of guides in the active view.

Selecting A Guide

Monitor Safety

This indicates the safe area viewable on most monitors and TV screens.

Safe Title

This indicates the safe area for titles viewable on all TV and monitor screens.

Center

This shows the Center point and X and Y axis of the view.

Film

This displays the Film guides as specified in the Frame Format>Preferences screen. Some frame format defaults have a corresponding default for the guides, whereas some will require customization.

Film Guide 1 contains four text boxes. These boxes specify the offset from the edges of the image for the Left Guide, Top Guide, Right Guide and Bottom Guide, in order. As with all offsets in Fusion, this is a resolution-independent number where 1 is the width of the full image and 0.5 is half the width of the image.

Film Guide 2's text box is used to set the aspect ratio of the projection area.

Guide Frame Aspect

The Guide Frame Aspect can be used to help show how the current image relates to a specified frame format. The frame aspect is usually set to Default. This forces the frame aspect to the same resolution as the image displayed in the view.

When the frame aspect is set using the Guides>Frame Aspect context menu, the guides will represent the exact boundaries of the specified format. The guides will display the correct frame format and any image area outside of that will be dark grey.